How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Georgia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Georgia / Joined 1972 / Served to 1977

H Sol Clark

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

H Sol Clark was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–2002
Tenure: 1972–1977 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Cornell University
Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Clark authored 613 published opinions for the court (1972–1976), plus 11 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Richmond v. Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance (157 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 171 of these were attributed to Clark by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1976	Richmond v. Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance	231 S.E.2d 245	157
1976	Howard Sheppard, Inc. v. McGowan	224 S.E.2d 65	100
1972	Thompson v. Maslia· Dissent†	195 S.E.2d 238	63
1976	Decker v. State	229 S.E.2d 520	58
1976	Mills v. State	223 S.E.2d 498	56
1975	Kenney v. Piedmont Hospital	222 S.E.2d 162	54
1974	Bennett v. Haley	208 S.E.2d 302	51
1976	Hill v. Hospital Authority	224 S.E.2d 739	50
1973	West Georgia Pulpwood & Timber Co. v. Stephens	198 S.E.2d 420	50
1972	Poppell v. Waters	190 S.E.2d 815	49
1976	Benefield v. State	232 S.E.2d 89	48
1972	Townsend v. State	195 S.E.2d 474	48
1974	Hodges v. Community Loan & Investment Corp.	210 S.E.2d 826	47
1973	Jones v. Spindel	196 S.E.2d 22	46
1975	Willingham v. State	215 S.E.2d 521	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 631 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was H Sol Clark on?: H Sol Clark was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

5 years on the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).